Chicago Electrical Trauma Rehabilitation Institute
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The Chicago Electrical Trauma Rehabilitation Institute (CETRI), located in Chicago, Illinois, was founded in 2009 by a team of scientists and physicians to better understand and treat electrical injury patients. This team consisted of faculty at the four major medical centers in Chicago with a shared interest in understanding the cause of neuromuscular and neuropsychological problems that often manifest in survivors of electrical shocks and may limit clinical recovery. [1] The precise link between these post-electrical shock syndromes has long been a subject of considerable dialogue amongst medical scientists, in part because there does not exist a proportional relationship between the electrical shock magnitude and the disabling consequences [2][3].
Adding to CETRI's research challenge to understand electrical shock injury is that many patients recover from electrical shock injuries with much fewer clinical problems than others. Thus, understanding the biological risk factors is important as well [4].
Mission and history
editCETRI's mission is to promote recovery of individuals affected by electric injury while simultaneously advancing the understanding of tissue injury patterns associated with electric shock injuries. Its scientists and clinicians evaluate electrical shock survivors, then communicate with the medical providers in the patients community to optimize rehabilitation. Electrical shock injury is a complex multi-physical trauma that results in a range of clinical manifestations that differ from patient to patient. The explanation for this is one of CETRI's priority research focus areas. CETRI's research is funded by both federal and private research agencies, as well as public foundations. CETRI's publications are referenced in the scientific community and by trade magazines.[5]
Some discoveries made by this team are that electrical shock injury is mediated by multiple mechanisms including non-thermal electrical forces, which many electrical shock survivors develop neuropsychological problems even if the current never passed through the brain and progressive peripheral pain and sleeplessness often adds to the disability. However, some electrical shock survivors do not manifest these problems.
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